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Poor Barbra looked awfully silly up at the podium when her prepared speech, which alluded to Palto and quoted John F. Kennedy' 44-'46, among others was finished. When the teleprompter ran out of things for her to say, the celebrity was embarrassingly unable to respond to issues raised by Kennedy School and other students...
...Professor Profiles. After three years of profiling students, we suspect that the profs might be kinda interesting, too. Who are the people behind the podium...
...Carnesale ran over long history of stage,screen and concert performances, as well as hercommitment to political activism, the entertainerpantomimed modest embarrassment, playing to theaudience by sneaking under Carnesale's podium toget a glass or water...
...Defense Minister stepped to the podium, he nervously grabbed the sides for support, anticipating a barrage of criticism. But within minutes, Grachev had managed to turn the tables on his adversaries. He did so by detailing, in graphic terms, the sorry state of a military that only five years ago was one of the most formidable armed forces in the world. He ticked off the problems like a list of battlefield defeats: pinched budgets, poor equipment, low recruitment rates, unpaid salaries and a decline in military preparedness so precipitous that not a single ground-force training maneuver has been carried...
President Clinton, at the central photo-op of his six-country Mideast tour, said today's signing of the treaty between Israel and Jordan made peace in the region "unstoppable." After presiding over the affair with Jordan's King Hussein and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin -- the podium, symbolically, was erected on a former mine field on the two countries' border -- Clinton made a peace offering to uneasy Jordanian Muslims. "We respect Islam," he announced, to loud applause from at least one side of the river Jordan. That appeared to set up his next line, a condemnation of Islamic terrorists...